BED LINEN DUTIES

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE INDIAN government seems finally to have prevailed over the European Union in the long-running row over bed linen anti-dumping duties, with the European Commission proposing that a review of the protection be abandoned, along with plans to re-impose the suspended tariffs themselves. The dispute led to India winning a World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute over how the EU had originally imposed the duties in 1997, however Brussels subsequently launched a review at the request of Eurocoton which could have led to the re-imposition of the duties. ...


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